From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 14:30:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BC416A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:30:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sys.heron.com.pl (sys.heron.com.pl [195.117.24.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2FA43D31 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:30:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotr.smyrak@heron.pl) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=poczta.heron.pl) by sys.heron.com.pl with esmtp (Exim 4.23) id 1CDOQJ-000JnA-B4 for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:30:15 +0200 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:30:15 +0200 Message-Id: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl> X-Mailer: WebMail at HERON 2.32 20040813 X-OriginatingIP: 83.24.86.87 (smyru) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Subject: BSDify Gnome - a suggestion X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:30:43 -0000 Hi, This is a thought that just happened to me during roaming and experiencing my newly built 2.8. Please have a look here: http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/mime-dialog-idea.png This is a dialog that assign new application to a MIME type. It defaults to /usr/bin, which I find a heavy linuxism, where the apps lay together with the base. I have no idea how much work that would need - but since FreeBSD is more strict and predictable when it comes to filesystem layout, I would like to suggest pointing it by default to /usr/X11R6/bin. This is the location where most of the X base apps exist, and I think it would be a great benefit to system knowledge agnostic users, that have no knowledge besides the graphical interface. I suppose there are some more fields where this might be a good thing also, but it is the one that happened to me. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl